Eight gun plot thugs have been found guilty of a UK-wide conspiracy which saw a firearm blasted at a Tyneside home.
Paul Momat and right-hand man Joseph Millward initiated the plan in a bid to “lay down a warning” to a rival. They enlisted the help of London-based criminal Colin Crawley and associate James Townsend to be the architects of the daylight shooting, with Caspian Bhinder tasked with being the middle man.
Following weeks of planning by the co-conspirators, two men – shooter Stefan Simpson along with Ashlee McKenzie – travelled 300 miles from London to the North East to carry out the offence in South Shields.
